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y motor cars c_j and motor trucks are offered at 1 .{ 9wgain prices m the want ad t~t columns of the examiner nd | the wise motor car or motor i truck buyer looks here before ___ buying elsewhere vol xiv no 257 a m tuesday registered v Â£. pattnt off;ae Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago october 17 1916 u final m 01 edition 10 kltb uisÂ±i cjbjn 1 suburbs two cexts daughter 16 shoots down dentist or roberts hit twice by bullets oh street fern roberts also shot he tells police she is stepdaughter she says that she is real daughter victim once member of united states medical corps in pan ama canal zone separated from his wife dr grant j roberts of 2025 wrightwood avenue a prominent north side dentist with offices at 2551 sheffield avenue was deijoyed into a dark street last night by his daughter fern roberts sixteen years old and shot twice in trying to j shoot her father a third time the girl accidentally shot herself in the knee dr roberts was formerly a member of the united states medi cal service in the panama canal zone leaving her father lying on the ground the girl ran in spite of her j wound to the home of her grandpa rents with whom she lived at 3137 osgood street she hid the revolver in the woodshed and crept up to bed without telling any one what she had done girl cites 11vwk1ttejv law when the police found her long after midnight she sat up in bed and j told them the whole story of the i shooting according to the police miss roberts stated that in shooting her father she acted under the un ! written law later she was taken to the bridewell hospital dr roberts when p-cked up and i taken to the norwegian lutheran ' deaconness hospital told the police he believed his daughter was insane and feared that after shooting him she had gone away and killed her self jivsteltv of birth there is a strange confliction in the stories of the relation between dr roberts and miss roberts the gi-1 told the detectives that her mother always told her that dr | roberts was her blood father but i that sometimes the doctor had told ! her he was her own father and some times jie had said that he was her stepfather when he had come out from under the anasthetic at the hospital last i night dr roberts told the detectives | that the gi-1 is his stepdaughter i though he had told dr elmer that iti was his daughter who thot him dr joseph duhig a dentist with offices at s00 belmont avenue was a witness to the shooting he was walking in school street about 9:30 i o'clock when he heard three shots in : quick succession and a n\an's shout for help dr huhig saw a man fall j to the ground and saw a figure rtrti ! into an alley and disappear he could not tell whether it was a man | or a woman victim is recognized dr duhig ran to the fallen man and recognized him as dr roberts what's the trouble asked dr duhig i've been shot who shot you never mind â€” help me to a doc tor's dr duhig half led half carried the wounded man to his own office and i there summoned dr kayfnond elmer i a physician and surgeon who shares the office dr elmer found that dr ' roberts left forearm had been b-oken by a bullet and that another bullet had torn through his right up per arm he put temporary dress i ings on the wound cal ; ed an ambu : lance and took the wounded man to j the hospital it was not until after midnight wtien trie wounds had been dressed hr " : : : / president proclaims selfreal radical bids for moose vote m address declaring his administration has proved only genuine pro gressive force m the country denounces republicans for ef forts to get m power to put army and navy back of amer ican foreign investments by international news service asburt park n t oct 1c â€” president wilson to-day at shadow lawn told a delegation of volunteer independents ltÃŸaded by rabbi ste plien wise and amos pinchot the time had come for america to unite and organize her progressive forces lie ndded th<it for a long time the pro gressive element m the democratic party had been the dominant element rabbi wise m a brief~address placed barnes roosevelt penrose and parking m one class he declared the progressive element represented by the wilson volunteers could not fol low the leadership of such men mr wilson was informed that a cam paign m new york state for his re election would be made from the bat tery to buffalo a set of resolutions presented denounced hughes as a candidate either afraid or unwilling to express his views president wilson m responding said the progressive forces have been present m the nation for a long time they have been running like under currents they have been asserting them ejyes here there and elsewhere m sometimes unexpected quarters but rot until four years ago did they dis c jose their numerical force figures show demand the figures of four years ago are very striking and emphasize the re sponsibility which rests upon us now who are attempting to represent the progressive forces of the country you will remember that four years ago there were something over fifteen million votes cast out of that fifteen million ten million were cast for the progres sive candidate and programs of the campaign the progressives of lint lime were divided into two groups there was the democratic group and the uew party group which called itself the progressive party and if jou add the six million votes cant for the democratic candidate to the four mil lion votes cast for the progressive candidate jou have two-thirds of the kit its of that year only five million of the reckoning are left and of these live million only three and a half voted for the re publican candidate a most extraor i tiniury manifestation of the desire â– of the people of the united states t to move forward along new and con l btructive lines m respect of their i public policy progressives dominate one of the two progressive groups m cc that campaign prevailed â€” the ' democratic group for a long time gentlemen the progressive element m the democratic party had been the dominant element m that party it was not known until 1912 how strong the progressive elemerft had become m the republican party and all that had beer lacking m the democratic party was an opportunity to organ ire that force for action vitii body noiv s'nce then tills group m ac llbcnocrattr party has had an oppor tinitj i ho the country whether ir rant what it said or not and it !â€¢Â«Â» novin hat it did mean what it aid â– â€¢"" h was a genuine progre lir â™¦"â€¢-<â€¢(â€¢ r-.idy to do the things that i ha 'â– â€¢' hxi-d o do and to â– !â€¢> skeffington shooting held unjustified loxdox oct 16 â€” higher offi cers m command when f sheeny skeffington was shot to death m the irish uprising are rebuked m the finding of the com mission appointed to inquire into the tragedy concerning the execution of skeffington the report says it is a delusion to suppose that the proclamation of martial law confers upon any officer any right to take human life m circum stances where this would not be justifiable without such proclama tion and this delusion had tragic consequences m the present case none of the evidence offered the commission reports afforded any justification for the shooting of the boy coade the commission reported there was no good ground for com plaints.against the action of lieu tenant morris who caused skef fington to be detained and sent to the barracks the report de scribes the action of captain bowen-colthurst who took skef fington from the barracks into the street as a hostage as re markable almost meaningless wall built in day beats woman's suit julius schwill will have 75,000 italian garden m spite of mrs wolfs injunction protest a heart-shaking race between julius schwill's 75,000 italian gar den and mrs anna wolf's injunction came to a climactic finish yesterday just before the courts opened so mr sch will's garden of italian loveliness will be a visible fact right next door to mrs wolf's house at 345 pullerton parkway and the courts of Illinois may wrestle at their leisure with the delicate question what is a fence from the beginning these are the facts - â€” mr schwill a prominent maltster married beatrice schoellkopf who owned the hydraulic power company of niagara falls mrs schwill in herited the power company and found herself rich beyond the dreams etc how to spend the money well italian gardens among other things cost money forth went an order to the william wright company of de troit for one italian garden of the best many things are made m de troit mrs wolf objects but mrs wolf heard about it and she didn't like the idea what mrs wolf most objected to was the plan for an eight-foot brick wall around the garden it would spoil her view of the parkway and it would she insists violate the law which bays ill buildings must be cighteeii feet back of the properly line but this will be just a fence alt schwill urged even if it is made of bricks and is eight feet high it's technically a fence the law permits fences to be built next to the prop erty line i'll get tin injunction mrs wolf said kl'sii work on sunday but she waited and sunday was approaching and mr schwill is a strategist no sooner had all the courts closed saturday than great loads of bricks were dumped on the site of the italian garden on sun day as soon as it was light a regi ment of workmen appeared all day they worked and it is said lliaj some of them worked all night early yesterday the moment the courts opened mrs waif got her in junction all she could do was tj im>.t it on the completed wall of course she can sue to have the wall removed but that is expected to mean years of litigation â€” espe cially as there is said to be no such thing as a legal definition of a fence infill the records of the Illinois ; ci^fcts the dictionaries have defi nflns â€” mil even ihe great wall of might classify as a fence ac ng to webster inmates op dining flee during fire man is attacked buildings de stroyed 3 crazed patients at large fire fans troublesome blaze m barns creates panic m dining hall during which the escapes are effected two barns at the dunning asylum burned last evening throwing into confusion seventy patients at dinner m a large building near by a num ber excited by the flames and by the olamor of fire engines escaped from the grounds and one of them at tacked a citizen at a late hour last night superintendent george lein inger said that only three patients all mild were still at large and he expected to have them back this morning there was interest but no great excitement among the hundreds of ! insane m the main building some dis tance from the barns they crowded to the windows and other vantage points to watch the firemen but none seemed to fear poucemds ordered out / when the alarm came m thirty po licemen were rushed from the irving i'ark station to the asylum to rescue the patients if the main buildings were on fire and to help m con trolling them m case of panic their work consisted m rounding up and bringing back the yatients who bolted from the dining hall and m holding m check thousands o curi ous spectators the two barns were burned all the winter's stor of hay and grain an automobile and some small ma chinery the fire was discovered about 6 o'clock john burke head of the asylum fire department with thirty men got out the hose lines and gave most of their attention to saving the cottages and dining hall patients are removed under burkes orders a number of patients were removed from the near-by cottages to places of safety the property burned was worth about 12,000 said superintendent leininger but it will cost the state 35,000 or 40,000 to replace it mr leininger was well pleased with the behavior of the patients they weren't half as troublesome as a lot of fire fans who crowded around he said policeman carries 2 from blazing house policeman john keating was the hero of a fire last night that nearly destroyed a three-story flat and store building at 740-742 east sixty-fourth street he rushed into the burning building climbed three flights of stairs and rescued mrs katherine sweeney and her twelve-year-old son john they had been overcome by smoke in their rush to safety the other tenants overlooked mrs swee ney and her son who were asleep henry splitdorf noted inventor dies new york oct 16 henry split dorf inventor of many important electrical devices died to-day at his home m this city he was eighty two years old and was the pioneer of telegraph instrument makers he in vented the splitdorf magneto and the liquid insulation of magnetic wire helped to cause war dies in military prison berlin via sayvillc wireless oct 16 â€” n'edjo kerovic one of the authors of the european war through his part m the assassination of archduke francis ferdinand of aus tria has died m a military prison according to a report from sarajevo bosnia austria refuses to free emmy destinn by international ews service washington oct is the state nepartment has agrain asketl austria i hungary to release emmy pestinn the opera singer but an unsatisfac tory answer has been received the release ofkoestinn is now at thq di cretion oflaustrla \ french take town on way to bapaume capture sailly-saillisel by storm germans use vertical bar rier fire against the flyers aviators take heavy toll by del uging infantry with machine fire berlin admits a loss by c f bertelli staff ( orrcxpondrnt of the interna tional ne tcb service bfjhlnd the lines on the french front on the somme oct 16 â€” by a smashing night attack the french entered the stronghold of sailly-sallisel astride the main road from bapaume to peronne desperate hand-to-hand fighting left the french firmly m possession of the church chateau and houses on ! the western side of the main road despite counter attacks of the great est violence which were made be neath the glare of thousands of fuses which lit up the ruins of the village i french storm hill the village is perched on a hillside up which the french swarmed pre ceded by a hurricane of shells meanwhile south of the somme the troops commanded by generals mar chaud blat and deÃŸouillot were still cleaning up the battlefield after saturday's forward sweep which gave them the bastioned line from pepper trench east of belloy to fres nes and further to the south fres nes the wood of genermont and its sugar factory the line here is dotted by a string | of small strongly manned forts the | garrisons of which fell into french hands during the advance with the exception of those killed this ac counts for the relatively high num ber of prisoners which totals 1,119 aviators attack troops - m'lie outstanding feature of the bat tle was the introduction by the ger manx of vertical barrier fire low lying clouds forced the french avia tors to fly at a heig-bt of 00 feet m order to regulate the artillery fire the teutons replied to this daring move by raising a shell curtain of the same altitude but the aviators hovered on the fringe of the flaming wall occasionally swooping down and turning their machine guns on the teuton infantry paris oct 16 the midnight statement describes the results of the more than twenty-four hours of fighting it says there was great reciprocal ar tillery activity on the entire somme front â€ž north of the river we consoli dated our positions m the captured part of sailly-sallisel south of the river we repulsed a violent counter attack east of berny-en-sonterre aye captured a small wood with two 210-milli meter guns and one 77-inillimetcr gun bet-ween geuermont and ab laincourt in these actions we cap uired 110 prisoners , london oct it the night o ffi ] cial report from british headquarters i m france says the losses incurred by^the cier mans m last night's attacks upon j our positions at scluvulien redoubt i were exceedingly heavy sixty eight prisoners were left m our hands berlin oct ib the uei-r.vui war office this afternoon admitted thtt ! british troops yesterday m i re newal of the onslaughts against the german positions nortmeust of gueudecourt three miles south of bapaume entered the gorman lk-nt line trenches it was added however that a ton ton counter attack recaptu,--e.l iil the ground lost other war news will fee found on page 5 mabel zimmer's auto hits girl in joliet in lier second accident within a few weeks miss ' mabel zimnier daughter of the warden of the illi nois state penitentiary struck and severely injured seven-year-old ma tilda jenco at joliet yesterday miss zitnmer wan driving her automobile behind an interurban car and swerved to the left to pass it the child ran directly m the patv of the auto miss zimmer's first accident occurred sep tember 10 when a buggy m which she was riding overturned race war feared in kentucky after double lynching six thousand persons see v ne groes hanged by automo biles bodies burned padccah ky oct 16 this city is practically under martial law to night after 6,000 citizens witnessed the lynching of two negroes â€” one brock kenley for assaulting mrs george rose a white woman twenty years old last friday the other negro james thornhill was lynched because he expressed his approval of the act the bodies of both negroes were burned by the mob a race war is threatened and to night every jaloon was closed while scores of armed deputies patrolled the streets the mob stormed the jail early m the forenoon but did not gain an en trance until after five hours hard work the steel doors had to be sawed and battered to pieces before kenley was dragged to the street he was taken before mrs rose who identified him the mob hanged thornhill first throwing one end of the rope over the limb of a tree and attaching the other to an automobile which drew his body from the ground then kenley was taken to the tree and the process repeated veiled powers run schools.'-mrs young an invisible government controls cbieago : s school affairs jacob m loeb is but a puppet of the unseen powers that manipulate the wires of the board of education these state ments were made yesterday by ella flag-g young at a reception m the la hotel she told a delegation of the ousted school teachers that they would be reinstated before long as klr loeb would not always hold his position she said the dropping of school teachers was dictated by the powers behind the board mrs young is on her way to washington to gather statistics for a book which she will write on school government j mrs wm brackett's 100 mesh bag stolen a small gold mesh bag worth per haps 100 but valued at far more because it was a christmas gift was stolen yesterday from mrs william bracken wife of major brackett u s a on a through route no 1 car mrs brackett had been down town shopping she teok the car at lake and wabash avenue the thief opened her handbag apparently and took the mesh bag and about 10 woman electrocuted by bathroom fixture mrs may d*ejluce was electrocuted m her home 2157 south central park avenue yesterday when she placed her hand on the regulating attach ment of a heater she was preparing her bath with one hand upon the regulator she reached lor the electric light fixture suspended from the center of the bathroom and com pleted'the circuit ist cavalry entrains starts home to-day hitowxsville tex oct 16 the first Illinois cavalry has entrained and the first section is scheduled to leave ;> t 9 tÂ»vh>ck to-morrow morn ing one 1 ui-.c-rcd and eight cara were rfej.uir6d to move the regiment and its equipment to springfield jack johnson's wife leaves him is report new york oct 1 6 word comes from spain that jack johnson's white wife has run away she is said to have left shortly after a bout whioh the ex-champion lost with her according to the story went many diamonds and other expensive jewelry gifts from johnson u s weather forecast Chicago v\d vicimtv_|,air and colder tuesday \\ ednrsda.v part ly cloud nltb rising temperature diminishing north west winds toes day t bv com in x mirinble by wednesz day tesrprrature for lwent>-toiir lionrs ending at a m â– iliÃŸh.-st 70s lon rxi 43 mean 5s normal temprrature for the day 54 eici-sn if temi^ratuie since jauuaij 1 v >{ i-recimtau tor twenty-four hours ending at o.fli im-h ote drflaen Â«- *Â»Â» j*n,,ar 7 relative huinirtits 7 a . m .. fg 7 Â„ sunrise t-fv i;^;s vot for end;fe it Â«'Â«.' m ' register today or lose vote on november 7 unregistered voters have their last opportunity to day to register for the november election the precinct polling places open at s a m and close at 9 p m if you do not register you can not vote on november 7 the old registration books have been destroyed women for the first time may vote for presidential electors m Illinois they also may vote for mem bers of the board of equalization assessors member of the board of review county surveyor state university trustees and member of the sanitary district board voters who will have resided m the precthct thirty days prior to november 7 can register to day charged to lananevicz concern thrown fnto bankruptcy as hoyne asks in dictments of the paisleys while the state's attorney's office was demanding indictment for the members of w h paisley & sons private bankers yesterday deposi tors of john m tananevicz private bank at 3253 south morgan street threw his concern into bankruptcy before federal judge landis jacob ringer attorney for the pe | titioning depositors charged that the tananevicz bank which lias been closed since october 3 has 400,000 liabilities and 300,000 assets the banker was accused of making pre ferred creditors following the filing of the peti tion judge landis appointed the cen tral trust company as receiver for ihe bank and bonds were given for immediate control of tho bank's as sets the creditors and their claims j were impolitas jramarska 1,000 1 leonas larembka 202 50 benedict j le causkis 270.60 ! jlijgk lahdis comments these private banks are causing ! a frightful state of affairs com i mented judge landis m naming the receiver he had just called rcoeiv 1 ers for max silver's bank to account the petition filed against tanane vicz charged that on september 29 1915 the banker committed an act of bankruptcy by paying s-17 to one of his creditors m preference to others that he transferred considerable property to others and that he has under his control large sums of money which should be taken by the court ' cor the benefit of creditors it was about the date specified that i tananevicz's banking troubles came i to the attention of the state'w attor ney's office through the complaint of a depositor who had been told that he would have to wait ninety days for his money judge landis cuish ith t t.c sil ver bank receivers was due to what he termed uncalled for delay m sct ling the bank's affairs ' k.ypla nation cut short max silver is a fugitive und ins brother has been under arrest i attorney e j hennessey aecini for ' the receiver started to explain that's nothing new to me judge landis cut m livery one knew that i eight weeks ago we'll get action if 1 have to act as receiver myself bring me the schedules and also a statement as to attorney's tees a five true bills are supposed to have i been voted against w h paisley and his sons oliver f and james t all of whom were interested m the north side string of private banks which collapsed deposits were found to total 2sÂ»,000 and the asset figured at 25,u00 tlie tankers will be ic cusfcd of i'.ccepti^^ieposits while â– *â€” solvent dtm thompson is called vice aid b y pastor _____ _____ i flat charges on stand that thai mayor countenanced opsjm levee conditions by restoring the saloon licenses revoked | mayor will facg hoyne to-day to explain saloon favors healey's defense throws more burden on the city hall the rev myron e adams member of the committee of fifteen pastor of the night church and former pastor of the j first baptist church made the flat j charge yesterday that mayor thom-y | son is responsible lor whatever vict j and salcon violations exist on tin ! south side adams testimony abounds m surprises i mr adamb was a willing witness i before chief justice olson m the i municipal court where state's at j torney hoyne is endeavoring to ob | tain warrants charging chief of po â– lice healey with conspiracy and | malfeasance m office as the result of his testimony i mayor thompson will be called to the witness chair this morning the following accusations were made by the minister that the mayor has had knowledge of violations of the law as applied to saloons r vice and gambling m the south side j district for months that his power to revoke sa i j loon licenses if really enforced â€¢ would eliminate such violations as now exist that mr thompson has been j cognizant for months that sam my hare of the schiller cafe was breaking the law yet he per j mitted hare to retain his license ! m face of repeated recommends ! tions by his chief of police and i police captains that the license ; be revoked that hare secure m his belief i of a political pull continues to j violate the law with brazen im punity his latest offense having been committed last sunday ; when he kept his cabaret open â– all evening and sold drinks that charles fitzmorris sec < | retary to the mayor told dr i adams when he tried to see i mayor thompson personally to i urge the revocation of hare 3 i license that the mayor does things m a new way and shunted him off to see chief healey j finally dr adams wav asked : what would you do if you were i in the mayor's place hoyne determines to call the mayor m 1 would see thai a man whojb license was lest for violation of jh law would never be given a s to reopen said the rev mr : h i would rice to it tlia no man bfl ing an cvi ur i r h l â– â€¢â– ;.: ii a jh could get ii license no â– l strong his political a/cilias and i would ._,;!} r c world and under oath that j^fl present mayor woulu uursue . jh course Chicago ivould cea vice plague s tenc^b it was aft i fl liad completed liin ; continued on 6th page 3jt*o!umn â€¢ 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y motor cars c_j and motor trucks are offered at 1 .{ 9wgain prices m the want ad t~t columns of the examiner nd | the wise motor car or motor i truck buyer looks here before ___ buying elsewhere vol xiv no 257 a m tuesday registered v Â£. pattnt off;ae Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago october 17 1916 u final m 01 edition 10 kltb uisÂ±i cjbjn 1 suburbs two cexts daughter 16 shoots down dentist or roberts hit twice by bullets oh street fern roberts also shot he tells police she is stepdaughter she says that she is real daughter victim once member of united states medical corps in pan ama canal zone separated from his wife dr grant j roberts of 2025 wrightwood avenue a prominent north side dentist with offices at 2551 sheffield avenue was deijoyed into a dark street last night by his daughter fern roberts sixteen years old and shot twice in trying to j shoot her father a third time the girl accidentally shot herself in the knee dr roberts was formerly a member of the united states medi cal service in the panama canal zone leaving her father lying on the ground the girl ran in spite of her j wound to the home of her grandpa rents with whom she lived at 3137 osgood street she hid the revolver in the woodshed and crept up to bed without telling any one what she had done girl cites 11vwk1ttejv law when the police found her long after midnight she sat up in bed and j told them the whole story of the i shooting according to the police miss roberts stated that in shooting her father she acted under the un ! written law later she was taken to the bridewell hospital dr roberts when p-cked up and i taken to the norwegian lutheran ' deaconness hospital told the police he believed his daughter was insane and feared that after shooting him she had gone away and killed her self jivsteltv of birth there is a strange confliction in the stories of the relation between dr roberts and miss roberts the gi-1 told the detectives that her mother always told her that dr | roberts was her blood father but i that sometimes the doctor had told ! her he was her own father and some times jie had said that he was her stepfather when he had come out from under the anasthetic at the hospital last i night dr roberts told the detectives | that the gi-1 is his stepdaughter i though he had told dr elmer that iti was his daughter who thot him dr joseph duhig a dentist with offices at s00 belmont avenue was a witness to the shooting he was walking in school street about 9:30 i o'clock when he heard three shots in : quick succession and a n\an's shout for help dr huhig saw a man fall j to the ground and saw a figure rtrti ! into an alley and disappear he could not tell whether it was a man | or a woman victim is recognized dr duhig ran to the fallen man and recognized him as dr roberts what's the trouble asked dr duhig i've been shot who shot you never mind â€” help me to a doc tor's dr duhig half led half carried the wounded man to his own office and i there summoned dr kayfnond elmer i a physician and surgeon who shares the office dr elmer found that dr ' roberts left forearm had been b-oken by a bullet and that another bullet had torn through his right up per arm he put temporary dress i ings on the wound cal ; ed an ambu : lance and took the wounded man to j the hospital it was not until after midnight wtien trie wounds had been dressed hr " : : : / president proclaims selfreal radical bids for moose vote m address declaring his administration has proved only genuine pro gressive force m the country denounces republicans for ef forts to get m power to put army and navy back of amer ican foreign investments by international news service asburt park n t oct 1c â€” president wilson to-day at shadow lawn told a delegation of volunteer independents ltÃŸaded by rabbi ste plien wise and amos pinchot the time had come for america to unite and organize her progressive forces lie ndded th skeffington shooting held unjustified loxdox oct 16 â€” higher offi cers m command when f sheeny skeffington was shot to death m the irish uprising are rebuked m the finding of the com mission appointed to inquire into the tragedy concerning the execution of skeffington the report says it is a delusion to suppose that the proclamation of martial law confers upon any officer any right to take human life m circum stances where this would not be justifiable without such proclama tion and this delusion had tragic consequences m the present case none of the evidence offered the commission reports afforded any justification for the shooting of the boy coade the commission reported there was no good ground for com plaints.against the action of lieu tenant morris who caused skef fington to be detained and sent to the barracks the report de scribes the action of captain bowen-colthurst who took skef fington from the barracks into the street as a hostage as re markable almost meaningless wall built in day beats woman's suit julius schwill will have 75,000 italian garden m spite of mrs wolfs injunction protest a heart-shaking race between julius schwill's 75,000 italian gar den and mrs anna wolf's injunction came to a climactic finish yesterday just before the courts opened so mr sch will's garden of italian loveliness will be a visible fact right next door to mrs wolf's house at 345 pullerton parkway and the courts of Illinois may wrestle at their leisure with the delicate question what is a fence from the beginning these are the facts - â€” mr schwill a prominent maltster married beatrice schoellkopf who owned the hydraulic power company of niagara falls mrs schwill in herited the power company and found herself rich beyond the dreams etc how to spend the money well italian gardens among other things cost money forth went an order to the william wright company of de troit for one italian garden of the best many things are made m de troit mrs wolf objects but mrs wolf heard about it and she didn't like the idea what mrs wolf most objected to was the plan for an eight-foot brick wall around the garden it would spoil her view of the parkway and it would she insists violate the law which bays ill buildings must be cighteeii feet back of the properly line but this will be just a fence alt schwill urged even if it is made of bricks and is eight feet high it's technically a fence the law permits fences to be built next to the prop erty line i'll get tin injunction mrs wolf said kl'sii work on sunday but she waited and sunday was approaching and mr schwill is a strategist no sooner had all the courts closed saturday than great loads of bricks were dumped on the site of the italian garden on sun day as soon as it was light a regi ment of workmen appeared all day they worked and it is said lliaj some of them worked all night early yesterday the moment the courts opened mrs waif got her in junction all she could do was tj im>.t it on the completed wall of course she can sue to have the wall removed but that is expected to mean years of litigation â€” espe cially as there is said to be no such thing as a legal definition of a fence infill the records of the Illinois ; ci^fcts the dictionaries have defi nflns â€” mil even ihe great wall of might classify as a fence ac ng to webster inmates op dining flee during fire man is attacked buildings de stroyed 3 crazed patients at large fire fans troublesome blaze m barns creates panic m dining hall during which the escapes are effected two barns at the dunning asylum burned last evening throwing into confusion seventy patients at dinner m a large building near by a num ber excited by the flames and by the olamor of fire engines escaped from the grounds and one of them at tacked a citizen at a late hour last night superintendent george lein inger said that only three patients all mild were still at large and he expected to have them back this morning there was interest but no great excitement among the hundreds of ! insane m the main building some dis tance from the barns they crowded to the windows and other vantage points to watch the firemen but none seemed to fear poucemds ordered out / when the alarm came m thirty po licemen were rushed from the irving i'ark station to the asylum to rescue the patients if the main buildings were on fire and to help m con trolling them m case of panic their work consisted m rounding up and bringing back the yatients who bolted from the dining hall and m holding m check thousands o curi ous spectators the two barns were burned all the winter's stor of hay and grain an automobile and some small ma chinery the fire was discovered about 6 o'clock john burke head of the asylum fire department with thirty men got out the hose lines and gave most of their attention to saving the cottages and dining hall patients are removed under burkes orders a number of patients were removed from the near-by cottages to places of safety the property burned was worth about 12,000 said superintendent leininger but it will cost the state 35,000 or 40,000 to replace it mr leininger was well pleased with the behavior of the patients they weren't half as troublesome as a lot of fire fans who crowded around he said policeman carries 2 from blazing house policeman john keating was the hero of a fire last night that nearly destroyed a three-story flat and store building at 740-742 east sixty-fourth street he rushed into the burning building climbed three flights of stairs and rescued mrs katherine sweeney and her twelve-year-old son john they had been overcome by smoke in their rush to safety the other tenants overlooked mrs swee ney and her son who were asleep henry splitdorf noted inventor dies new york oct 16 henry split dorf inventor of many important electrical devices died to-day at his home m this city he was eighty two years old and was the pioneer of telegraph instrument makers he in vented the splitdorf magneto and the liquid insulation of magnetic wire helped to cause war dies in military prison berlin via sayvillc wireless oct 16 â€” n'edjo kerovic one of the authors of the european war through his part m the assassination of archduke francis ferdinand of aus tria has died m a military prison according to a report from sarajevo bosnia austria refuses to free emmy destinn by international ews service washington oct is the state nepartment has agrain asketl austria i hungary to release emmy pestinn the opera singer but an unsatisfac tory answer has been received the release ofkoestinn is now at thq di cretion oflaustrla \ french take town on way to bapaume capture sailly-saillisel by storm germans use vertical bar rier fire against the flyers aviators take heavy toll by del uging infantry with machine fire berlin admits a loss by c f bertelli staff ( orrcxpondrnt of the interna tional ne tcb service bfjhlnd the lines on the french front on the somme oct 16 â€” by a smashing night attack the french entered the stronghold of sailly-sallisel astride the main road from bapaume to peronne desperate hand-to-hand fighting left the french firmly m possession of the church chateau and houses on ! the western side of the main road despite counter attacks of the great est violence which were made be neath the glare of thousands of fuses which lit up the ruins of the village i french storm hill the village is perched on a hillside up which the french swarmed pre ceded by a hurricane of shells meanwhile south of the somme the troops commanded by generals mar chaud blat and deÃŸouillot were still cleaning up the battlefield after saturday's forward sweep which gave them the bastioned line from pepper trench east of belloy to fres nes and further to the south fres nes the wood of genermont and its sugar factory the line here is dotted by a string | of small strongly manned forts the | garrisons of which fell into french hands during the advance with the exception of those killed this ac counts for the relatively high num ber of prisoners which totals 1,119 aviators attack troops - m'lie outstanding feature of the bat tle was the introduction by the ger manx of vertical barrier fire low lying clouds forced the french avia tors to fly at a heig-bt of 00 feet m order to regulate the artillery fire the teutons replied to this daring move by raising a shell curtain of the same altitude but the aviators hovered on the fringe of the flaming wall occasionally swooping down and turning their machine guns on the teuton infantry paris oct 16 the midnight statement describes the results of the more than twenty-four hours of fighting it says there was great reciprocal ar tillery activity on the entire somme front â€ž north of the river we consoli dated our positions m the captured part of sailly-sallisel south of the river we repulsed a violent counter attack east of berny-en-sonterre aye captured a small wood with two 210-milli meter guns and one 77-inillimetcr gun bet-ween geuermont and ab laincourt in these actions we cap uired 110 prisoners , london oct it the night o ffi ] cial report from british headquarters i m france says the losses incurred by^the cier mans m last night's attacks upon j our positions at scluvulien redoubt i were exceedingly heavy sixty eight prisoners were left m our hands berlin oct ib the uei-r.vui war office this afternoon admitted thtt ! british troops yesterday m i re newal of the onslaughts against the german positions nortmeust of gueudecourt three miles south of bapaume entered the gorman lk-nt line trenches it was added however that a ton ton counter attack recaptu,--e.l iil the ground lost other war news will fee found on page 5 mabel zimmer's auto hits girl in joliet in lier second accident within a few weeks miss ' mabel zimnier daughter of the warden of the illi nois state penitentiary struck and severely injured seven-year-old ma tilda jenco at joliet yesterday miss zitnmer wan driving her automobile behind an interurban car and swerved to the left to pass it the child ran directly m the patv of the auto miss zimmer's first accident occurred sep tember 10 when a buggy m which she was riding overturned race war feared in kentucky after double lynching six thousand persons see v ne groes hanged by automo biles bodies burned padccah ky oct 16 this city is practically under martial law to night after 6,000 citizens witnessed the lynching of two negroes â€” one brock kenley for assaulting mrs george rose a white woman twenty years old last friday the other negro james thornhill was lynched because he expressed his approval of the act the bodies of both negroes were burned by the mob a race war is threatened and to night every jaloon was closed while scores of armed deputies patrolled the streets the mob stormed the jail early m the forenoon but did not gain an en trance until after five hours hard work the steel doors had to be sawed and battered to pieces before kenley was dragged to the street he was taken before mrs rose who identified him the mob hanged thornhill first throwing one end of the rope over the limb of a tree and attaching the other to an automobile which drew his body from the ground then kenley was taken to the tree and the process repeated veiled powers run schools.'-mrs young an invisible government controls cbieago : s school affairs jacob m loeb is but a puppet of the unseen powers that manipulate the wires of the board of education these state ments were made yesterday by ella flag-g young at a reception m the la hotel she told a delegation of the ousted school teachers that they would be reinstated before long as klr loeb would not always hold his position she said the dropping of school teachers was dictated by the powers behind the board mrs young is on her way to washington to gather statistics for a book which she will write on school government j mrs wm brackett's 100 mesh bag stolen a small gold mesh bag worth per haps 100 but valued at far more because it was a christmas gift was stolen yesterday from mrs william bracken wife of major brackett u s a on a through route no 1 car mrs brackett had been down town shopping she teok the car at lake and wabash avenue the thief opened her handbag apparently and took the mesh bag and about 10 woman electrocuted by bathroom fixture mrs may d*ejluce was electrocuted m her home 2157 south central park avenue yesterday when she placed her hand on the regulating attach ment of a heater she was preparing her bath with one hand upon the regulator she reached lor the electric light fixture suspended from the center of the bathroom and com pleted'the circuit ist cavalry entrains starts home to-day hitowxsville tex oct 16 the first Illinois cavalry has entrained and the first section is scheduled to leave ;> t 9 tÂ»vh>ck to-morrow morn ing one 1 ui-.c-rcd and eight cara were rfej.uir6d to move the regiment and its equipment to springfield jack johnson's wife leaves him is report new york oct 1 6 word comes from spain that jack johnson's white wife has run away she is said to have left shortly after a bout whioh the ex-champion lost with her according to the story went many diamonds and other expensive jewelry gifts from johnson u s weather forecast Chicago v\d vicimtv_|,air and colder tuesday \\ ednrsda.v part ly cloud nltb rising temperature diminishing north west winds toes day t bv com in x mirinble by wednesz day tesrprrature for lwent>-toiir lionrs ending at a m â– iliÃŸh.-st 70s lon rxi 43 mean 5s normal temprrature for the day 54 eici-sn if temi^ratuie since jauuaij 1 v >{ i-recimtau tor twenty-four hours ending at o.fli im-h ote drflaen Â«- *Â»Â» j*n,,ar 7 relative huinirtits 7 a . m .. fg 7 Â„ sunrise t-fv i;^;s vot for end;fe it Â«'Â«.' m ' register today or lose vote on november 7 unregistered voters have their last opportunity to day to register for the november election the precinct polling places open at s a m and close at 9 p m if you do not register you can not vote on november 7 the old registration books have been destroyed women for the first time may vote for presidential electors m Illinois they also may vote for mem bers of the board of equalization assessors member of the board of review county surveyor state university trustees and member of the sanitary district board voters who will have resided m the precthct thirty days prior to november 7 can register to day charged to lananevicz concern thrown fnto bankruptcy as hoyne asks in dictments of the paisleys while the state's attorney's office was demanding indictment for the members of w h paisley & sons private bankers yesterday deposi tors of john m tananevicz private bank at 3253 south morgan street threw his concern into bankruptcy before federal judge landis jacob ringer attorney for the pe | titioning depositors charged that the tananevicz bank which lias been closed since october 3 has 400,000 liabilities and 300,000 assets the banker was accused of making pre ferred creditors following the filing of the peti tion judge landis appointed the cen tral trust company as receiver for ihe bank and bonds were given for immediate control of tho bank's as sets the creditors and their claims j were impolitas jramarska 1,000 1 leonas larembka 202 50 benedict j le causkis 270.60 ! jlijgk lahdis comments these private banks are causing ! a frightful state of affairs com i mented judge landis m naming the receiver he had just called rcoeiv 1 ers for max silver's bank to account the petition filed against tanane vicz charged that on september 29 1915 the banker committed an act of bankruptcy by paying s-17 to one of his creditors m preference to others that he transferred considerable property to others and that he has under his control large sums of money which should be taken by the court ' cor the benefit of creditors it was about the date specified that i tananevicz's banking troubles came i to the attention of the state'w attor ney's office through the complaint of a depositor who had been told that he would have to wait ninety days for his money judge landis cuish ith t t.c sil ver bank receivers was due to what he termed uncalled for delay m sct ling the bank's affairs ' k.ypla nation cut short max silver is a fugitive und ins brother has been under arrest i attorney e j hennessey aecini for ' the receiver started to explain that's nothing new to me judge landis cut m livery one knew that i eight weeks ago we'll get action if 1 have to act as receiver myself bring me the schedules and also a statement as to attorney's tees a five true bills are supposed to have i been voted against w h paisley and his sons oliver f and james t all of whom were interested m the north side string of private banks which collapsed deposits were found to total 2sÂ»,000 and the asset figured at 25,u00 tlie tankers will be ic cusfcd of i'.ccepti^^ieposits while â– *â€” solvent dtm thompson is called vice aid b y pastor _____ _____ i flat charges on stand that thai mayor countenanced opsjm levee conditions by restoring the saloon licenses revoked | mayor will facg hoyne to-day to explain saloon favors healey's defense throws more burden on the city hall the rev myron e adams member of the committee of fifteen pastor of the night church and former pastor of the j first baptist church made the flat j charge yesterday that mayor thom-y | son is responsible lor whatever vict j and salcon violations exist on tin ! south side adams testimony abounds m surprises i mr adamb was a willing witness i before chief justice olson m the i municipal court where state's at j torney hoyne is endeavoring to ob | tain warrants charging chief of po â– lice healey with conspiracy and | malfeasance m office as the result of his testimony i mayor thompson will be called to the witness chair this morning the following accusations were made by the minister that the mayor has had knowledge of violations of the law as applied to saloons r vice and gambling m the south side j district for months that his power to revoke sa i j loon licenses if really enforced â€¢ would eliminate such violations as now exist that mr thompson has been j cognizant for months that sam my hare of the schiller cafe was breaking the law yet he per j mitted hare to retain his license ! m face of repeated recommends ! tions by his chief of police and i police captains that the license ; be revoked that hare secure m his belief i of a political pull continues to j violate the law with brazen im punity his latest offense having been committed last sunday ; when he kept his cabaret open â– all evening and sold drinks that charles fitzmorris sec < | retary to the mayor told dr i adams when he tried to see i mayor thompson personally to i urge the revocation of hare 3 i license that the mayor does things m a new way and shunted him off to see chief healey j finally dr adams wav asked : what would you do if you were i in the mayor's place hoyne determines to call the mayor m 1 would see thai a man whojb license was lest for violation of jh law would never be given a s to reopen said the rev mr : h i would rice to it tlia no man bfl ing an cvi ur i r h l â– â€¢â– ;.: ii a jh could get ii license no â– l strong his political a/cilias and i would ._,;!} r c world and under oath that j^fl present mayor woulu uursue . jh course Chicago ivould cea vice plague s tenc^b it was aft i fl liad completed liin ; continued on 6th page 3jt*o!umn â€¢ on 4th page 2d columnj